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Utah
Landscape Paintings
Contemporary Utah Artists
Seven painters of
the forefront of the state's 21st-century art movement
STATE OF THE ART: UTAH
Andrew
Skorut
When Andrew Skorut was 18, he moved to Utah from Krakow,
Poland, and brought with him a long-standing interest in
art. He enrolled in for a spell at Salt Lake Community
College and later at the University of Utah, where he
studied with David Dornan. His visually arresting landscapes
blend traditional and abstract styles, and that is a
conscious effort, he explains. "I’m always trying to keep a
balance between the abstract and an image that can be
recognizable," he says. His mission is to crate a poetic
vision of a scene, not to depict it literally. "I make up my
own compositions in my imagination," he says. Like many Utah
artists, Skorut feels a special affinity for the state’s
varied terrain. His continually inspired by the plethora of
mountains , valley, and desert landscapes. "Utah is like a
big huge picture dictionary where you can find anything- a
place where there is endless subject matter to paint," he
says. Skorut is represented by Coda Gallery, Palm Desert,
CA, Park City, UT and New York, NY; Mountain Trails Gallery,
Jackson, WY; Kneeland Gallery, Ketchum, ID; Contemporary
Southwest Gallery, Santa Fe, NM; and Third Canyon Gallery,
Denver, CO.-BG
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